Can someone tell Batman why not?!?

John Carpenter is also writing a Joker comic, which is kinda neat.

Neal Adams' artwork has all those thick lines, it looks more Kubert than himself in a way. I'm guessing he works on a digital board probably drawing on top of scanned thumbnails now. That modern style has altered the look of quite a few comic artists earlier works.

I know he’s a consummate professional, but I’d buy a Batman series where Neal incorporates his growing earth theories

I mean, professional and wouldn’t throw personal causes in

"Neal incorporates his growing earth theories"

You know he could just do a Warlord series and be able to make it work 'kinda' in-continuity.

Probably could somehow work it with K'un-Lun in Iron Fist perhaps too.

I always thought that one could easily do some AM radio crank character in the Marvel Universe reading into all this madness always going on in the comics upon the people. I'm kind of surprised that someone like Bendis did not do it, as it would have worked in some of his story lines.

A tribute character to Art Bell would be cool, but I think that would work better in the DC comics.

Man this looks cool:

https://i.imgur.com/XG2wn9B_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

recoloured by Continuity iirc?

https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/20/20972541/batman-vs-ras-al-ghul-neal-adams-recap

Laura Hudson and David Wolkin have done a sequel to their Batman: Odyssey recap and, folks, it's once again a wild ride

jazz wizards!

One of my all-time favourite scenes pic.twitter.com/zA7rJ6VJ7w

— Chip Zdarsky (@zdarsky) December 26, 2019

I’m finding this much funnier than I should

good work chip

the batman who shits

that dark knight returds

Stoked that someone will finally be exploring “the darker aspects” of Bruce Wayne:

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/batman-begins-david-s-goyer-podcast-spotify-1234786099/

Kind of wild the idea that the radio drama making a comeback like 70+ years later.

...I haven't clicked that link but what do you think the last radio drama was

nice white parents iirc

The Archers has only been running for 69 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS4QGEQaclk

that's TV iirc

Technically it's youtube

guessing this isn't technically radio tbf

batman-begins-david-s-goyer-podcast-spotify-1234786099/

Update on the storage locker guy: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/batman-comics-auction-stolen-randy-lawrence

Just to say Cliff Chiang‘s Catwoman miniseries is friggin DELIGHTFUL and I recommend it HIGHLY. It’s a standard DKR “what if but old and more dystopia” miniseries setup, but the execution is wonderful. WHY ARE NOT MORE COMICS LILE THIS, THINKS OLD MAN

Heard a lot of good things about this! Also about gentrification supposedly?

Yeah it feels like the first DC comic I've read since the 90s that was **about something** instead of the usual self-regarding DC bullshit about **what I means to be an icon** etc etc

But it wears all that lightly - mostly it's just a delightful, grounded, fun "one more heist" story with a good villain, and makes a couple staple characters (Croc, Riddler) more interesting than I've seen them before, possibly ever. It's **really** good if it's Chiang's first writing job.

Kind of reminds me of the Cooke runs on Catwoman and Spirit in the '00s

It's fun. Really love his artwork

(surprised by how much this was, £5.60 for 50 pages on comixology, but then wonder if that's just inflation for you)

(TDKR was $2.95 in 1986 which would be $8.84 in 2020, about £6.50, physical copy, so maybe ok)

(but i will wait for a sale)

I’m mostly still a shameful stealer but this is the first time I’ve read and enjoyed something enough to buy it in print

Don’t want to oversell it! But it’s definitely actually-good not graded-on-a-curve-good

Lonely City is a Black Label book, so it's being printed in oversize magazine format. That's probably why the digital price seemed jacked up, to match the physical

This does look cool, thx for the rec

Yeah the two physical issues (so far) seem to be $8.99 / $11.99 for 48 pgs. (each); vs. $2.95 cover price for my 1986 copy of TDKR 3 (46 pgs.) = $7.50 in 2021 dollas… I’ll wait for the collection, I guess.

my 20th anniversary hardback copy of tdkr now goes on ebay for less than i paid for it, even before inflation. and i don't think i've actually read it, other than the extra bits.

but every 5 years that seems to have an anniversary edition. or they decide to reprint it without the colouring or some crap. did they ever fix the swastika tattoo on that one woman's chest?

omg

I am once again thinking about how an obscure PBS documentary got Adam West (RIP) to read 20 seconds’ worth of narration from Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, and how those 20 seconds are my favorite Batman movie: pic.twitter.com/eKenX2hz6H

— Abraham Riesman אברהם ריסמן (@abrahamjoseph) March 14, 2022

wow!

Strongly dislike Riseman, but good clip!

he's in that category of people I see on twitter (I don't follow him) but don't really know what their ~deal~ is

His Stan Lee biography is really good (if, like me, you're firmly in the Stan = old fraud camp)

I believe he was involved in some online harassment a while back, that put him firmly on my “fuck this guy” list, but I may be misremembering

Otherwise I just hate the way he writes, he seems part of that AV Club influenced-turn in alt-weekly style culture writing to overinflated word counts and boring personal anecdote

Is the new movie any good? y/n

(Or maybe that’s a pitchfork thing but I don’t read pitchfork.)

Anyway: Adam west really hits that both-funny-and-scary sweet spot with this. Should have had him on all-star Batman too

morrisp, there’s a thread Robert Pattinson IS The Batman

I would say it’s fine, Adam West reading the script might be better

I ended up with this huge hardcover of a thing called Gotham Central Omnibus (a guy was cleaning out his office, and gave it to my wife). Is it good / worth getting into? Looks like Batman isn’t in it very much!

it's decent pulp - Rucka and Brubaker writing different shifts of weary regular cops but! in a supervillain world

very fond memories of it

The first arc is a little stiff, but after that it gets better and better.

Greg Rucka is a good influence on Ed Brubaker but an inferior writer in almost every way. One Brubaker leaves, it gets less interesting, but it's still worth finishing.

It exists in an interesting space where crime writers still wanted to riff on Homicide: Life on the Streets (a huge influence, even down to the colouring) but no one was really watching The Wire yet.

Allen and Montoya were two fun characters that DC lost sight of because of racism and editorial carelessness

*Once not One

Really nice Michael Lark art on the early issues.

Montoya hasn't been completely forgotten at least, she later became The Question II and has showed up in various films and TV series. Crispus Allen for sure though